The Really Awful Movies Podcast

(https://reallyawfulmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/prom_night_film_poster1.jpg)"The killers are coming!" In this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we compare and contrast Prom Night (Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980) and Prom Night (Brittany Snow, 2008). Did you go to your high school prom? Is it OK to go stag to your prom? Why are proms so popular? Prom Night is filmed in our hometown...

(http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7600000/Steve-Austin-The-Condemned-steve-austin-7657860-500-333.jpg)Condemned to see The Condemned. Move over Running Man /  Hunger Games / Battle Royale. It's a tournament to the death (last man standing set free) involving convicts, unwittingly starring in a bad reality TV show. And this is also a bad movie. It features twin growlers, Stone Cold Steve A...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Laserblast.jpg)Bad movies we caught this week. What's worth watching and what's worth using as a coaster? Laser Blast an infamous flop, lampooned on Mystery Science Theatre. What springs to mind when you think "laser?" Maybe Austin Powers or James Bond but not...a silly cannon and an amulet. LaserBlast is about a loner who discovers an alien laser can...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Nightoflepus.jpg/220px-Nightoflepus.jpg)A killer rabbit movie? Yes please. We love rabbits, especially grilled. And we give this one a good grilling. Night of the Lepus features some pretty high wattage star power, including old timey Western star Rory Calhoun, Deforrest Kelley (Star Trek) and Janet Leigh (Psycho). An experiment goes awry, cau...

(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsJ/29378-26917.gif) We discuss some of the crappy movies we bought for $2-3 and what motivated our purchases. A big thanks to Toronto's 2Q video: http://bloor.2qvideo.com/home.do (http://bloor.2qvideo.com/home.do) In this edition of the Really Awful Movies podcast, we discuss our love for the frequently unintelligible Vinnie Jones as well as WWE film produc...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/ONG-BAK.jpg)Ong Bak, Muay Thai warrior a wild Thai action film starring ass-kicking Tony Jaa. Jaa rules! The guy is a "human special effect." On this podcast, we discuss how we came to see this amazing film, its mesmerizing fights and chase scenes and our experiences in Thailand. The plot is wafer-thin but who cares? RAM guy Jeff even watched it in...

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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Vigilante-poster.jpg)The Bristol Bad Film Club was co-founded by Timon Singh, a lifelong aficionado of terrible monster movies and junk cinema, who screens stinkers like Samurai Cop and Lifeforce. They do once-a-month screenings, with the major criterion being "there must be a bar present at the venue." They've rented out the city's planetarium and...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K9A97CMTL._SY300_.jpg)Without a word of a lie, one of the most dunderheaded films we've ever encountered (and we've endured four films made by Steven Seagal in the 2000s). Howie Long is a firefighter, battling blazes in Wyoming. Long was a long-time Raider football player and is one of the greatest defensive linemen of all time - as an actor? Not so much. T...

(https://johnskeleton.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/zombi2-eye-scene.jpg)Is gore required in horror movies? On this podcast we discuss Zombi 2, Dr. Butcher MD and how Italian directors became known for shocking gory films. We discuss movies and magazines that influenced us, such as Friday the 13th and Fangoria. In Tenebre, an arm is sliced off and blood splatters absolutely everywhere. Not every fil...

(https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/817213/files/20140827173717-erin_r_ryan.jpg?1409186237)We first got wind of Erin R. Ryan through her stellar work in Babysitter Massacre, a low budget homage to 80s slashers. She was a standout there and we noticed we'd seen her in other things as well. The Ohioan has appeared in Scarewaves, Haunted House on Sorority Row, and Kill That Bitch among...

(http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/6979/29311933_.jpg)Hunt to Kill? Guess you never hunt to maim... Stone Cold Steve Austin is of course, the Texas Rattlesnake of WWE fame. And he stars as a border patrol agent whose partner is killed investigating a trailer home meth lab. After this pre-credit roll tragedy, he seeks peace and quiet. He leaves the Lone Star State for the quie...

(http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/272/860/272860131_640.jpg)Can she turn this cabbie into an overnight singing sensation? Sylvester Stallone couldn't hold a tune if you duct-taped one to his chest. Rhinestone is hilarious and the one film Sly wish he hadn't made (but we're glad he did). An Indecent Proposal crossed with Hee Haw, Rhinestone is a total mess but lots of fun. Sly turned down the lead in Bever...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1191340025/logo-square.jpg)***A special edition of the podcast, from Shock Stock!*** Shock Stock is a fun-filled horror convention/festival, which takes place in London Ontario, three hours outside of Toronto and two hours outside of Detroit Michigan. This is a three-day celebration of all things horror. And if the event itself wasn't enough, there are some d...

(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/2/2d/They_Live.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120312195415)John Carpenter is a master of horror. He's the brains behind Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, Christine and The Thing. In 1988, he made They Live, featuring wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. This is a very fun homage to b movies from Carpenter's youth, with bits of satire thrown in for good m...

(http://www.mediacollectibles.com/415-thickbox_default/the-humanoid-sci-fi-dvd-.jpg)George Lewis, not George Lucas! But that's an easy mistake to make as this is The Humanoid, a shameless Star Wars rip-off featuring Lord Graal. He's a bit like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs. Watch as gargantuan Richard Kiel from James Bond, becomes the titular hero. Also on the program, Open Grave, a military experim...

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/9/26/1380194910118/robocop-008.jpg)Robocop features the incredible Peter Weller (who has since earned a Ph. D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history) as the eponymous cyborg crime-fighting machine. Detroit was once a Midwestern economic powerhouse but went into precipitous decline and became crime-ridden (it's yet to recover). W...

(http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/strikecommando/affiche2.jpg)Arguably, one of the worst war films ever made. But who wants to argue? Strike Commando is one of the worst films of all time, period, featuring the legendary Reb Brown. While operating behind enemy lines, Brown (Sgt. Mike Ransom - yes, we're not kidding. That is his name) learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. And that pre...

(https://reallyawfulmovies.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/the_warriors_furies.jpg)I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle. The Warriors! Can you dig it? Indeed. Based on Sol Yurick’s book, which drew inspiration from Anabasis by Zenophon, a pupil of Socrates, Walter Hill’s cult classic is one long chase from the top to the bottom of the New York City subway system. At a gang...

(https://rigsamarole.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/maxpayne_movie.jpg)"Why are you doing this to me?" That's a common question in horror movies and the answer is usually the same: they're psychopaths! On this podcast, we discuss some annoying horror as well as action film clichés. http://reallyawfulmovies.com/2014/10/09/20-signs-you-might-be-in-a-bad-horror-movie/ (http://reallyawfulmovies.com/201...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Henryportrait.jpg)Loosely based on the life of Virginia-born serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who went on an unheard of "confession spree." (he'd confessed to hundreds of killings, with a handful actually attributable to him) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is one of the more infamous horror films ever made. The film follows Henry and his sleazy roo...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Streettrash.jpg/220px-Streettrash.jpg)A sleazy Brooklyn liquor store owner discovers a dusty case of "Viper" in his cellar, some nasty hooch. He decides to unload it to local hobos dirt-cheap, unaware of its scary side effects: Viper makes imbibers ooze, melt and then explode goo. Street Trash (1987) is one of the sleazier films ever made, co...

(http://www.flixist.com/ul/216232-the-cult-club-samurai-cop-1989-/samurai-cop-cult-movie-2-620x.jpg)Samurai Cop is an absolute gem of a bad movie. A samurai cop and his side-kick go after the Yakuza, that notorious Japanese organized crime outfit. However, it's set outside of Los Angeles. And there's barely a Japanese person to be found. The samurai cop (Matt Hannon) has a Bon Jovi / Friends /...

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